Congratulations to Ryan Montgomery who took the Senior men’s cross country title in Avondale, on Sunday. Ryan took the lead half way through the first lap and extended his lead with every lap, to cruise to victory and become the first ever Greystones athlete to win a senior championship.

In the Junior event, our girls team of Ellie Hartnett, Niamh Kearney and Laura Boylan finished in silver medal position, with Ellie & Niamh taking the individual silver and bronze medals.

The relays were very badly supported with only nine Greystones athletes turning out. Teams were organised and all ran well and enjoyed the chocolate afterwards. Medals will be presented at training. Well done to everyone who competed on the day.

Up-coming events

The Leinster XC relays will be held on Sun 10^th Jan. in Kilmacow, in conjunction with the Jun/Sen events. We need to make up teams for the relays, so please text Theresa if you are interested. U12/14/16 (2009 ages).

National Junior indoors are on Sat 16^th Jan. and the AAI games are on Sun. 17^th. Leinster will be selecting their U17 & U20 teams for Scotland at these events. Athletes who wish to be considered for the teams need to make an expression of interest to the selection panel.

National ‘B’ cross country will be held on Sun 23^rd Jan in Lough Key. Athletes from U10 up are eligible to compete (2009 ages). We did very well at this event last year.

Indoor relays U12- u19 will be held with the Jun/Sen/Mast competition on Sun Jan 31^st.

On Fri 22^nd Jan. our club will be hosting the County Star Awards. This event will be held in the function room of the Horse & Hound in Delgany, which is kindly being donated by the Boylan family. We will need sandwiches and cakes for this, so if you are in a position to help out, please contact Theresa on 0868635797. Award winners will be announced shortly.

We would like to congratulate Caoimhe Basquille and Ferdia Kenny for winning the Leinster Star Awards for 2009.      This is a great achievement for both athletes and wonderful to see our club winning, yet again this year. Awards will be presented at a function in Carlow on Sat. 9^th Jan. If anyone wants to attend, contact Theresa for tickets.

Attendance Day Trip

We are arranging the trip for Mon 4^th Jan 2010. Eligible athletes should meet in Bray at the Ice Rink at 11am. We will follow this with food at Kentucky Fried Chicken and then Bowling at Bray Bowl. Athletes should be collected here at 2.30pm. Cost is €20. Please text Theresa asap if you are going, as we need to arrange bookings. Attendances have been counted up since Sept. 1^st  and the following athletes are eligible to attend.

Group 5: Ronan Dempsey, Kerrie Hogan, Thea McLoughlin, Rosie Mitchell, Alice O’Neill, Aisling Smith, Lachlan Walker.

Group 4: Catherine Casey, Ella Curtis, Frances Dallaghan, Shauna Dillane, Marc Finn, Sorcha Long, Aoife McTague, Alison Pluck, Claudia Randles, Niamh Redford, Rose Wafer.

Group 3: Roisin Coogan Pluck, Hilary Gallagher, Aoife Kavanagh, Zoe Kerr, Emily Lannin, Katie Lawless, Liam Lupton Smith, Jamie Maguire, Zoe O’Donnell, Sinead Ryan, Megan Yoder.

Group 2: Richael Browne, Lisa Dallaghan, Alison Dawson Whelan, Conor Dempsey, Luke Donoghue, Jamie Fallon, Anna Hayes, Scott Howard, Isabel Kenny, Rosa Kirwan, Lorcan Lalor, Matthew Malone, Aoife McDonnell, Susie McParland, Rebecca Murphy, Sinead O’Neill, Sadhbh Redford.

Group 1: Caoimhe Basquille, Laura Boylan, Cillian Browne, Hayley Fallon, Claire Fox, Ellie Hartnett, Amy Howard, Niamh Kearney, Aisling McCabe, Aisling McGee, Aisling Moore, Isobel O’Grady, Ciara Stuart.      

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